We performed a comparison between Databricks and MicroStrategy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Databricks, Microsoft, Alteryx and others in Data Science Platforms."Databricks gives us the ability to build a lakehouse framework and do everything implicit to this type of database structure. We also like the ability to stream events. Databricks covers a broad spectrum, from reporting and machine learning to streaming events. It's important for us to have all these features in one platform."
"It is a cost-effective solution."
"The solution offers a free community version."
"The most valuable feature of Databricks is the notebook, data factory, and ease of use."
"Databricks' most valuable feature is the data transformation through PySpark."
"The setup is quite easy."
"Databricks is a scalable solution. It is the largest advantage of the solution."
"Databricks covers end-to-end data analytics workflow in one platform, this is the best feature of the solution."
"The simplicity of MicroStrategy is what I like the most."
"The usability for users to be able to drag and drop, then create their own reports."
"Dossiers are going to change the name of the game for us. We want to be able to have the executive committee go into a meeting and tell a story. We want them to tell us a story, not us."
"Speed for high level aggregation by using Intelligent Cubes."
"It is easy to use and visually very appealing. One thing that sets it apart is that it has got a great ETL tool. As compared to some of the other solutions, it is much easier to process data from other applications in MicroStrategy. That's why we prefer using it."
"I have never had any problems with the stability."
"We've made a few enhancements to our Enterprise Manager system to allow self-reporting to grow. We see that as a very useful system. It's been incredibly beneficial in diagnosing production performance issues, diagnosing what reports are running slowly, where the SQL could be optimized, opportunities or metrics where we see long-time running performance. Enterprise Manager has been absolutely vital in giving us some of the insights about our system."
"You can build once and deploy to multiple operating systems. Also, it resizes in the way you want it to."
"Implementation of Databricks is still very code heavy."
"There could be more support for automated machine learning in the database. I would like to see more ways to do analysis so that the reporting is more understandable."
"The solution has some scalability and integration limitations when consolidating legacy systems."
"The query plan is not easy with Databrick's job level. If I want to tune any of the code, it is not easily available in the blogs as well."
"The product cannot be integrated with a popular coding IDE."
"I believe that this product could be improved by becoming more user-friendly."
"Anyone who doesn't know SQL may find the product difficult to work with."
"Databricks could improve in some of its functionality."
"Its price should be lower. In terms of features, what we have is quite encompassing right now."
"Sometimes, it has become too complex to upgrade and adjust to the ecosystem."
"Our users tend to say the interface is a pain."
"Consolidate the functional offering to be more concise in the front-end for web reports, dashboards, and self-service."
"The online community page of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The graphs available for the new dashboard of version 10 are weak."
"They need to do a better job In its ability to allow end users to produce their own reports, metrics, and self-service business intelligence."
"I would try to make it a little more basic, user-friendly. In terms of the UX, it's a bit sluggish there."
Databricks is ranked 1st in Data Science Platforms with 78 reviews while MicroStrategy is ranked 9th in BI (Business Intelligence) Tools with 155 reviews. Databricks is rated 8.2, while MicroStrategy is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Databricks writes "A nice interface with good features for turning off clusters to save on computing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of MicroStrategy writes "A robust solution for powerful data analytics". Databricks is most compared with Amazon SageMaker, Informatica PowerCenter, Dataiku Data Science Studio, Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio and Dremio, whereas MicroStrategy is most compared with Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, IBM Cognos, SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform and QlikView.
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